Interpretation of column experiments of transport of solutes undergoing an irreversible bimolecular reaction using a continuum approximation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Sanchez Vila, Xavier ^a   Fernàndez Garcia, Daniel ^a   Guadagnini, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMOLECULAR REACTION; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONTINUOUS TIME RANDOM WALKS; CONTINUUM APPROXIMATION; GLOBAL PRODUCTION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; IRREVERSIBLE REACTIONS; KINETIC REACTIONS; MODEL-BASED; PARTICLE TRACKING; PORE SCALE; POWER LAW; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; REACTION EQUATIONS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; SCALE MODELS; SCALE-RATE; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA;

ADVECTION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; REACTION PRODUCTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADVECTION; DISPERSION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDROGEOLOGY; MIXING; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 78649923340     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009539     Document Type: Article

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